As the 4th of July approaches, members of the Wake Forest community reflect upon the hard work, discipline and self-sacrifice that were integral to our nation’s founding. Senior Alexis Lauria embodies these values. Lauria is a resident advisor, aspiring doctor and one of only 15 women in the Demon Deacon ROTC Battalion.Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Leadership & Character, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
Hundreds of Wake Foresters volunteered in projects nationwide (and in China) as part of Pro Humanitate Days 4Good. The event ran from June 1-4. Read more on Storify.Categories: Alumni, Community Impact, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate
From Philadelphia to San Diego, 18 alumni clubs and hundreds of Wake Foresters will be participating in volunteer projects nationwide as part of Pro Humanitate Days 4Good. The event will run from June 1-4.Categories: Alumni, Community Impact, Happening at Wake, Pro Humanitate
Seven thousand eight hundred and forty-three miles. That’s how far a cappella singers in Chi Rho will be traveling for their spring mission tour this year. The student-run and directed ensemble has toured nationally and internationally — performing contemporary Christian pop, rock and traditional hymns and releasing 11 albums -- since 1993.Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
Several hundred Wake Forest students welcomed about 50 elementary school students to campus earlier this month to paint their very own desk. WFU students started D.E.S.K. (Discovering Education through Student Knowledge) 12 years ago to provide desks to underprivileged children.Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
Starting at age seven, Wake Forest junior Jawad Wahabzada spent four years working eight hours a day as a child laborer in Afghanistan. He now lives 7,000 miles from his birth country, but he is telling the story about the children of Kabul.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements
On April 10, more than 180 students walked barefoot on Hearn Plaza and lined the Quad with paper feet to show support for children in sub-Saharan Africa who walk to school without shoes.Categories: Campus Life, Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
More than 1,000 students danced in Reynolds Gym as part of the seventh annual Wake 'n Shake Dance Marathon. The event raises money for the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Fund and the Cancer Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
Categories: Campus Life, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
Hunter DeKoninck knows firsthand the horror inflicted by Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistant Army (LRA). DeKoninck, a senior, traveled to Northern Uganda last summer on a Richter scholarship. There, he helped rehabilitate soldiers abducted into the guerilla leader’s forces.Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
Schools of Business students are exemplifying Wake Forest's motto of Pro Humanitate by applying skills they are learning in their “Dynamics in Organizations” class to support a local non-profit agency.